Airport Express not recognized in Airport Utility

I have bought an Airport Express in order to play my iTunes music wirelessly. I managed to configure the Airport Express, plugging it to my wifi box, and everything is working fine. It appears in Airport Utility, and I can play the music through it.
The issue I have is that when I unplugg the Airport Express from my wifi box (hoping that it will connect to it wirelessly), I can't see a anymore my Airport Express in Airport Utility.. Which means that I cannot put the airport express anywhere else in my flat than next to the wifi box...
Can anyone help me?
My wifi box is a classic O2 box. Thanks a lot!!

But just to make sure i understand how it is supposed to work:
- do I actually need an airport extreme base station? or can i just plug my airport express, connect it to my speakers, and play itunes music wirelessly from my macbook pro? i was just looking at the picture in the user manual which seems to imply an extreme base station as well...
- when configuring my airport express, i am plugging it to my wifi box with an ethernet cable. Should i instead connect it to my macbook pro with the ethernet??
thanks a lot...

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